NSA Contractor Harold Thomas Martin Arrested in Possible Theft of Top Secret Materials

Another Booz Allen Hamilton employee arrested on theft of government property.

As per the U.S. Justice Department, 51 year old NSA contractor, Harold Thomas Martin, has been arrested on suspicion that he stole documents would “cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States. Martin was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor. Wait, isn’t that exactly what Hillary Clinton did with the use of her personal server while Secretary of State? How ironic, Martin worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the same company that Edward Snowden was contracting with in 2013 when he leaked a trove of stolen documents to journalists exposing the NSA’s surveillance programs.

The FBI recently arrested a National Security Agency contractor on suspicions that he stole highly classified computer codes used to hack into foreign government networks, senior intelligence officials told the New York Times on Wednesday.

Disclosure of the stolen documents would “cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the U.S.,” the Justice Department said in a statement detailing the federal criminal complaint filed against Maryland resident Harold Thomas Martin.

Martin, 51, was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor.

FBI agents raided his home in August, where they recovered documents and electronic devices that contained classified information. Many of the seized materials bore “top secret” markings.

Martin worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the same company that Edward Snowden was contracting with in 2013 when he leaked a trove of stolen documents to journalists exposing the NSA’s surveillance programs. If Martin is convicted, the incident would mark the second time in three years that an insider was able to steal highly classified documents from the NSA.